Personally I'm very suspicious of all versions of Twa Magicians, and I'm glad to see you are putting Hares on the Mountains in an appendix as both could at a stretch derive from continental versions independently. KJ You have the MacNally version from Maine but there are 3 other versions in Flanders, Ancient Ballads. There's a pre 1850s version in the Stevens Douglass Manuscript. There are 2 prose versions in MacEdward Leach 'Lower Labrador Coast And Niles gives a version from Ratliff which doesn't seem to have suffered much at his hands.
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